Phoenix Convention

Catie Murphy was born on the 1st of June 1973 in Kenai, Alaska. Early literary aspirations led to her having a poem published in a school magazine at the tender age of six. She attended University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she studied English and History. She has had the usual assortment of jobs that seems to be the lot of all authors: public library volunteer, cannery worker, web designer, and a stint in a fast food restaurant. She moved to Ireland, along with her husband Ted, in 2005, originally living in the lovely southerly seaside town of Cobh in County Cork, but recently moved to Cork city.

She has been writing fulltime since 2005, both under her own name and as action-adventure romance author Cate Dermody.

As C.E. Murphy her bibliography as of March 2008 will be:

The Walker Papers:

• Urban Shaman
• Winter Moon (in the anthology "Banshee Cries") along with tales from Mercedes Lackey and Tanith Lee
• Thunderbird Falls
• Coyote Dreams

The Negotiator Trilogy:

• Heart Of Stone
• House Of Cards
• Hands Of Flame (Sept 2008)

The Inheritors' Cycle:

• The Queen's Bastard (June 2008)
• The Pretender's Crown (Jan 2009)

She has also, as Cate Dermody, written a trilogy of what her publisher called "action-adventure romance" and she called "spy novels". Those books consist of The Cardinal Rule, The Firebird Deception and The Phoenix Law (2006), and are depressingly difficult to find.

She also has several other books at various levels of readiness, and had been busy writing Take a Chance, a comic series projected to run forty-eight issues, as soon as she places it with a publisher. More information about Catie's published work, on an ongoing basis, can be found on her Bibliography page.

If you're on LiveJournal, or indeed even if you're not, you can read Catie's regular journal there, where she appears under the name of Mizkit. Catie's website can be found here.

According to the Biography page on her website, her hobbies include swimming, walking, travelling, drawing, and moose-wrestling. She should also have put attending SF cons, as she has become a regular on the Irish convention circuit, attending Dublin's March event, P-CON, Northern Ireland's August MeCon, and October's Maynooth Octocon, as well as any comics events she can make it to.

We were exceedingly pleased to have had her as the Guest of Honour at P-Con V, where she launched House Of Cards.